Calling Ministry Action Plan

Calling

Ministry Action Plan 

One of the best ways to bring clarity to your thoughts

Is to write your thoughts down

Your future is an open map

There is a Geographical Map with North, East, South and West

There is a Personal Achievement Map with Family, Finance, Health and Pleasure

And there is a Ministry Map with Time with God, Church, Sharing and Caring 

These three maps overlay each other

Because they overlay each other, they must be in harmony with each other

God told Habakkuk to write the revelation and make it plain

God told Habakkuk the revelation was for the future

You and I have a Calling from God

Have you put the desires of your heart on the three maps above?

Have you worked to make it clear?

If so, times of waiting will become times of renewing your strength

Not discouragement

Because we live by faith in God

Ministry Action Plan 

One of the best ways to bring clarity to your

thoughts is to write your thoughts down.

Your future is an open map.

There is a Geographical Map with

North, East, South and West.

There is a Personal Achievement Map with

Family, Finance, Health, and Pleasure.

There is a Ministry Map with

Time with God, Church, Sharing and Caring.

  

These three maps overlay each other.

Because they overlay each other they

 must be in harmony with each other.

God told Habakkuk to write the

revelation and make it plain.

God told Habakkuk the

revelation was for the future.

You and I have a Calling from God.

We love the verse in Jeremiah 29:11…

“For I know the plans I have for you plans

to prosper and give hope for the future.”

What if you and I were to write down

the ministry plan God has for us…

We could call it our Ministry Action Plan

(MAP for short).

Habakkuk was to write the vision down

so a herald, others could tell his story…

 

"Write down the revelation

and make it plain on tablets

so that a herald may run with it.

Habakkuk 2:2

If you and I were to take the three maps…

Geographical Map

Personal Achievement Map

Ministry Map

Where would we put ourselves now?

Where is our starting place?

What visions, dreams or ideas do we have

that could be put on one of these maps?

What does my action plan have to

be to get to those destinations?

Each of the three maps will

effect the other two maps.

If I sense God is calling me to support

orphans or give more to missions…

 How will that effect my Personal

Achievement Map as it relates to finances?

If you feel strongly about moving

to a new geographical place how will

that effect your spouse and family?

Writing down your visions, dreams

and ideas and making them clear…

 Will not only help you to

take action on your plans…

 But will help your family and those

who rely on your understand.  

 When it comes to our vision, dreams, and

ideas it has been said to imagine what you

would do if you were not restricted…

 By finances, health, authority,

peer pressure, and age…

 What would you do?

This is a good exercise to help us see the

passion for ministry God has given us.

  

Delight yourself in the LORD and

He will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 37:4

As you delight in the Lord…

 He will place desires in your heart.

You will also see the things you desire

as things God wants to fulfill

because He loves you.

So take some time and write

down the things you desire.

Put them on the three Maps of your life.

Then prayerfully make it clear by making

a Ministry Action Plan a MAP

that will bring all three maps together.

Because we are talking about the rest of our lives…

There would be times of waiting to see things unfold.

For the revelation awaits an appointed time;

it speaks of the end

and will not prove false.

Though it linger, wait for it;

it will certainly come and will not delay

Habakkuk 2:3

Don’t give up.

One of my greatest struggles to

my desires has been finances.

I do not have a retirement, so I have had

to create ways of bringing in an income.

God has done great things for me in this area but

threats and hindrances have had to be overcome.

When I was younger, I had a goal of not

needing a paycheck by the time I was 60.

I wanted to be self-sufficient, so

younger ministers could be supported.

I never liked being supported by the ministry

 even though it is the right of every minister.

Little did I know my goal would be so challenging.

There was an accident that

effected the timing of my desires.

Caring for my children and grandchildren

affected the timing of my spiritual desires.

Personal struggles within, over the timing of

these desires, has also had its effects on my MAP.

 

But when you make your MAP clear…

 You will always know how to get back

on track and have the patience to wait.

I many times felt discouragement when waiting…

Yet, as I look back I found the times of

waiting was times of renewing strength.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run,

and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 40:31KJV

Habakkuk was warned of the issues of pride…

"See, he is puffed up;

his desires are not upright —

but the righteous will live by his faith—

Habakkuk 2:4

Your Ministry Action Plan is a plan of faith…

Living by faith every day from where you

are today to the very end of your MAP.

Faith is the constant.

Other things on your MAP may and will change…

But Faith in God, the One who is the same

Yesterday, Today and Forever

 will never leave us or forsake us.

He is our Helper.

  

Scripture Reading

Habakkuk 2:2-4 NIV

2 Then the LORD replied:

"Write down the revelation

and make it plain on tablets

so that a herald may run with it.

3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time;

it speaks of the end

and will not prove false.

Though it linger, wait for it;

it will certainly come and will not delay.

4 "See, he is puffed up;

his desires are not upright —

but the righteous will live by his faith—